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Medieval Literature
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Newcomers to manuscripts sometimes ask what such books tell us about the societies that created them. At one level, these Gospel Books describe nothing, for they are not local chronicles but standard Latin translations of religious texts from far away. At the same time, this is itself extraordinarily revealing about Ireland. No one knows how literacy and Christianity had first reached the islands of Ireland, possibly through North Africa. This was clearly no primitive backwater but a civilizatio
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― Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
― Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
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In order to be disturbed less—since Mischance goes everywhere, and even though he may be ubiquitous—I have chosen as my sole joy (whatever joy someone else may have, this is mine): peace, voluntary solitude, and a secluded, solitary life.
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― The Book of the Mutability of Fortune (Volume 52)
― The Book of the Mutability of Fortune (Volume 52)
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